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August 6, 2006

G110: Devil Rays 7, Red Sox 6 (10)

I missed about half of the game due to work -- the good half as it turned out (grrr) -- and after my MLBtv crapped out, I listened via radio. Just a pathetic, pisspoor effort.

And for the first time this season, I am having doubts about whether this team can even get to the playoffs, let alone win October games. If they have such trouble with minor league teams like Tampa (god I hate those fuckers and their piece of trash "stadium", and the heckler needs to be force-fed a shit sandwich) -- if the bullpen keeps sucking as hard as it has been -- well ....

Lineup: Coco struck out four times in the leadoff spot while #5 hitter Youkilis singled twice and walked twice. Fucking A, Tito! It's not that hard. Put Yook at the top and leave him there. Put Pena at #5 (even when Lowell returns) and leave him there. Put Coco 7th or 8th.

Arms: Why didn't Papelbon pitch the 10th? He has thrown only two innings in the last week and was at 26 pitches. And the team is off tomorrow. ... Francona used him for five outs with a one-run lead, why not six outs with a two-run lead? ... And why Sexy Lips? Seanez has been better this year; Snyder was out there, too.

Fact: We have not won a game by more than one run since July 25.

Damage: Two games out in the East and tied at .5 behind in the wild card. .. And the mighty Royals on Tuesday.

Those guys are freaks, they are. If you throw a strike and they can reach it, they hit it. Hard. Ruth and Gehrig. Batman and Robin, I dunno. They're like the best combo in the history of the world. Peanut butter and jelly. Chocolate and red wine. They're the best I've ever seen.

I don't know which was worse, losing the game or having to accept losing 7 of 10 in Tampa. Compounding this was flipping to the Yanks game between innings only to find either an Oriole squander or a Yank tack-on. The question now is whether the Sox can cobble together enough pitching to play even .500 ball the rest of the way. History tells me not to write this team off with 52 games left, but my eyes tell me something different. Wake and Foulkie returning as saviours? I just don't know.

Tell us again about those untradeable kids in the bullpen, Theo. Some bullpen help was sure called for, even if you couldn't get a 5th starter who wasn't on life support.Talk about bad timing: just when Hansen and Delcarmen start showing their ages, after Taveras and Seanez and Timlin have been showing THEIR ages, Papelbon picks this game of all games to throw a meatball.

Of course, the score should have beem about 10-2 when the pen started in being crappy as usual, so it shouldn't have mattered.

I just hate watching the team when they're playing like this.I feel like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange...

yeah, i think we should all get together and go slap a muzzle on that pain in the ass heckler.i always wonder about the people sitting around him. don't they ever tell him to shut up? that would so piss me off if i had to sit next to that fucker the whole game and listen to him carry on and on.

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i just hope these games won't mean anything at the end of the season, that's all.